Outdoor Addict

Well, judging from my lack of posts, when I take some time off the bike, I apparently take some time off from writing on the blog. Ohh well. Let’s all get caught up to speed. The last few races of the year went pretty well for me. The second to last cross race was much [...]

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What a great few days of cycling.  Painful, but great non the less. Sunday had me toed up on the line at the Great Glen cross series with the other intermediate/elite racers.  I put myself in the intermediate group because I knew there was no way I was going to hang with the big boys.  [...]

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Back at it, and gearing up for a bunch of different events..  In particular, the Porky Gulch Classic. Last night, I dug out the lights and went in search of some new trails.  A friend from work has been working on a few, so he wanted me to bring the GPS along and plot out [...]

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Nothing like a killer view as we left the office for our morning ride: I don’t get to see many sunrises because of my desire to stay in bed as late as possible, but from what I was told, this was a nice one in comparrison to what we have seen lately.  The picture doesn’t [...]

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This is always a tough time of the year for me biking.  The mountain biking is still good, but it is getting cool.  The colder weather isn’t the biggest issue, as I have tons of good clothing, but the light is the key.  I am not what you would call a “morning person” so riding [...]

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I got home from work and did the things that needed to be done before I got out on the bike and realized that I was going to get real soggy riding.  Here in New England, I think it has been raining now for about the past 25 days.  Every morning when I wake up, [...]

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I was back on the bike again…and I actually remembered how to pedal the thing.  After talking to my coach for a little while, we thought a nice week of recovery was due, so this week is all about nice, easy pedaling. I took the road bike out and just spun around for about 1.5 [...]

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Lately, I have been wicked tired.  I am not sure if it is over training, or just burning the candle at both ends, but I am not liking it.  I am pretty tired during most of the day, then when it is time to ride the bike, the mind doesn’t want to ride, but the [...]

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What can I say.  It has been an up and down weekend, that is for sure. Friday night, I got home from work and had some work to do on some projects around the house.  I grabbed the pup and took her for a nice walk, but then it was all business from that point [...]

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What a good weekend for riding. The weather was nice on the days that I was scheduled to ride and I took full advantage of that. The goal on Saturday was to take the mountain bike out for some hill climbing. Roger that. We have some hills in the area, so off I went. The [...]

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